A rare and urgent set of resolutions issued by the citizens of Troy, New York in opposition to James Madison’s embargo on trade with Great Britain, requested by the President on April 1, 1812. These resolutions were pronounced by the citizens of Troy just a month after that and directly.....
A broadsheet issued by the California campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy shortly before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring endorsements by some twenty prominent Black Californians. At the top of this campaign handbill is a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March.....
A circular advertising a Rhode Island horse fair held during the Civil War, with a handsome and well-printed wood engraving of a horse and its handler on the first page. Announcing an equestrian fair “worthy…of the consideration and patronage of all who desire to improve the blood and beauty of.....
A circular issued to citizen scientists by the first curator of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird, to collect data on flora and fauna across the U.S.—an effort whose participants included Commodore Matthew Perry, and which coincided with the beginning of Henry David Thoreau’s phenological record-keeping. The first citizen science initiative.....
An unrecorded circular advertising a “pioneering” history of Woodbury by a distinguished Maine transplant. Announcing a work of “untiring perseverance, onerous labor, and patient research” that occupied all of the author’s leisure time, this circular promotes the first two volumes of William Cothren’s History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (1854). Cothren.....
A scarce circular addressed to the Hawaiian people urging a strategy for maintaining their national independence in the looming shadow of U.S. annexation, written by British businessman Theophilus Harris Davies, the guardian of the last heir to the Hawaiian throne. Published just three months before Davies’ death, this circular addresses.....
A large illustrated circular promoting Forepaugh’s Wild West show-cum-circus in New York City. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of nineteenth century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. He is generally credited with the invention of the “Wild West” exhibition.....
An apparently unrecorded circular announcing changes in ownership at the Philadelphia book publishing business Grigg, Elliot, & Co. Founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849, Grigg, Elliot, & Co. was for a time the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in Philadelphia. Their.....
A scarce broadside issued by Boston fur dealers Hart, Taylor & Company. Featuring an appealing illustration of a bear at the top, this circular lists fur garments manufactured by Hart, Taylor & Co., including robes, blankets, and coats of bearskin, wolf, genet, wildcat, fox, buffalo, raccoon, and seal. Also promoted.....
A group of three circulars (and original envelope) issued by a patent medicine company that manufactured a pain killer advertised as a “no quack nostrum,” these examples sent to a minister in Maine. Based in Pittsburgh, Robert Monroe Kennedy invented and patented as early as 1869 the product advertised here.....
[with] [Portrait of Doctor W. J. P. Kingsley.] [N.p.], ca. 1880. Carte-de-visite, 4” x 2.5”, printed text on verso. CONDITION: Good, light soiling to recto, photo somewhat faded, verso with light soiling along margins. An advertising circular issued by noted Upstate New York doctor and patent medicine maker W......
A rare printed letter evidently intended exclusively for political officials, urging them to use their influence to shift United States funding away from the suppression of the African slave trade and towards Liberian colonization efforts. This circular, signed in type by Mitchell in his capacity as agent of the American.....
An apparently unrecorded circular detailing the Court Martial of an African American soldier (and former Virginia slave) who was convicted of three charges and executed by firing squad. As specified here, Private Samuel Mapp of the 10th U.S. Colored Troops, Co. D was charged with mutiny, disobedience of orders, and.....
Two unrecorded circulars and a letter sent by a New Orleans land agent Colonel W. R. Stuart to a prominent Texas land businessman Leonidas Cartwright in 1884, constituting an apparently unsuccessful attempt via correspondence to go into business with the affluent Texan. The first circular covers “great bargains” on orange.....
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A group of three scarce circulars issued to promote a St. Louis Sanitary Fair in 1864. The Western Sanitary Commission’s biggest fund-raising event was the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. The Commission was a private agency devoted to aiding the Union Army’s sick and wounded soldiers. Led by abolitionists and.....